A/RES/65/203. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/203
• Year: 2010
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/203

General Assembly Distr.: General

16 March 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 67

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/455)]

65/203. Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights

and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to

self-determination

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

all of its previous resolutions on the subject, including resolution

64/151 of 18 December 2009, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of

30 September 2010

1

and 15/26 of 1 October 2010,

2

as well as all resolutions

adopted by the Commission on Human Rights in this regard,

Recalling also

all of its relevant resolutions in which, inter alia, it condemned

any State that permitted or tolerated the recruitment, financing, training, assembly,

transit or use of mercenaries with the objective of overthrowing the Governments of

States Members of the United Nations, especially those of developing countries, or

of fighting against national liberation movements, and recalling further the relevant

resolutions and international instruments adopted by the General Assembly, the

Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Organization of African

Unity, inter alia, the Organization of African Unity Convention for the elimination

of mercenarism in Africa,

3

as well as by the African Union,

4

Reaffirming

the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United

Nations concerning the strict observance of the principles of sovereign equality,

political independence, the territorial integrity of States, the self-determination of

peoples, the non-use of force or of the threat of use of force in international

relations and non-interference in affairs within the domestic jurisdiction of States,

Reaffirming also

that, by virtue of the principle of self-determination, all

peoples have the right freely to determine their political status and to pursue their

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),

chap. II.

2 Ibid., chap. I.

3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1490, No. 25573.

4 On 8 July 2002, the Organization of African Unity ceased to exist and, in its place, the African Union

came into force on 9 July 2002.